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Multi-model Benchmark Round 1- Completed

Originally posted on ArangoDB blog
It’s time for another update of my NoSQL performance blog series. This hopefully concludes the first part of this series with the initial databases ArangoDB, MongoDB, Neo4J and OrientDB and I can now start to check out other databases. I’m getting a lot of requests to test others as well and I’ll try to add them as soon as possible. Pull requests to my repository are also more than welcome. Remember it is all open-source.

The first set of benchmarks was started as a proof that multi-model can compete with specialized solutions and I started with the corresponding top dogs (Neo4J and MongoDB) for graphs and documents. After the first blog post, we were asked by the community to includeOrientDB as the other multi-model database, too, which makes sense and therefore I expanded the initial lineup.

Concluding the tests did take a bit longer than expected, because vendors took up the challenge and improved their products with impressive results – as we asked them to do. Still, for each iteration we needed some time to run all tests, see below. However, on the upside, everyone can benefit from the improvements, which is an awesome by-product of the benchmark tests.

For the impatient awaiting new test results: Doing the tests takes a lot of time – especially with cloud machines. But cloud machines are the only way to allow everyone to verify the results. I’ve made the experience that the server performance can indeed fluctuate from day to day easily by more than 10% or that the underlying hardware gets upgraded from one day to another rendering old results useless. Therefore in order to get comparable results, I needed to rerun all tests for all databases. Each run of the tests consists of 5 cycles – which takes a lot of wall-clock time. We tried to react to improvements suggested by other as fast as possible given the above restrictions (and restrictions imposed by our other projects).